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Re: Accidentally merged out code.


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Accidentally merged out code.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:41:12 -0500 (EST)

Andy Bradford writes:
> 
> I'm not sure how to describe this situation, but I'll try.  Two people
> had copies of the repository (I believe the same).  The first person
> made changes and committed them.  The second person also made changes
> and committed them.  Then, a third person that supposedly had the same
> tree, checked in code and it caused the changes made by person one be
> ``merged out''.  I'm not entirely certain how this could happen since
> each did a ``cvs up'' before committing.  Person three didn't remove any
> code from the files, however, I guess if the code wasn't in there to
> begin with then it could have removed it.  Would this happen if they
> were working on different versions of the same file?

Usually this is caused by someone doing an update while they have a file
loaded into a text editor and then saving the file over top of the
merged version (wiping out the merged changes) and then committing it.

-Larry Jones

What's Santa's definition?  How good do you have to be to qualify as good?
-- Calvin



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